proposed eggmorpher change (code bounty 30usd)

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I think eggmorphers in current state suck, allow me to explain why.

So: An egg morpher consumes bodies, deleting them and their contents from the game, in return for some huggers.

But, in all Aliens media the Aliens have areas with just tons of fucking burst bodies embedded in the walls, and that’s a huge soulful thing to see all your dead comrades instead of >corpse blender

Therefore my suggested change is have burst bodies do nothing at all for the hive, and eggmorphers simply produce huggers at a rate of like 1 per 2 minutes or something.

This also makes eggmorphers have a point at the front, and eases on the actual suffering that is standard Carrier reloading.

If devs approve it and it gets merged, I’ll pay you 30usd via paypal or a steam game

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Big fan of this personally, all the reasons you mentioned, and removes one of the many dinky little chores xenos have to do at the start of the round as a side effect. I think it’d be super neat to have the corpse cocoons like the deleted scene from alien but this is absolutely a step in the right direction

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Wouldn’t it be pretty easy to achieve via copying queen ovi or eggsac carrier egg generation code? Not gonna try but I’d wager one could bruteforce it without much coding knowledge

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done

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Imagine not watching the first movie extended edition.

(that’s where egg morphing comes from)

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1 hugger every 2 minutes seems a bit too slow imo, maybe a 1.5 minutes.

could possibly do every 3-4 minutes or even remove regen but every time a body bursts each egg morpher gets 1-2 huggers. needs compensation since pre-bursts are no longer usable.

also is there a balance factor towards marines getting easier access to pre-bursts? is there anything they can even do with those?(im a dirty xenomain so idk)

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Marines can put dead bodies in the morgue and get tech points by it. But if marines can do it to all the bursted corpses, then the round is usually over.

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now THIS is what I’m talking about!

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maybe make walled corpses unrecoverable after a while, mechanically similar to weeds eating things on the ground or bodies being put in morpher. Aesthetically could just leave them exposed for effect

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wow thats way more than i thought. coulda sworn that it was like three max, is it dependent on anything or is it static?

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static hivewide thing, it’s a single number change codewise

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Gives marines and xenos a bigger incentive to go for the hive, usually experienced queens give up on the hive early-ish and then win because they’re mobile and marines are incapable of dealing with that. This would make it harder for them which is imo a good thing, not sure how much inexperienced queens would be affected by this.

Also you’re relying on there being IOs/medics that would fulton/medevac every single body which would be extremely annoying.

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Personally, i think the huggers should generate automatically to a certain point, and then it’s only bodies to go higher, as well as feeding it bodies to speed up production in desperate times.

I can forsee just a hellchoke filled with egg morphers and the moment Marines push, 12 huggers coming out of plain view and hugging half of Delta, stalling. (pretty soul tho imo)

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